Archive for January, 2008

Well, get the flu, and all the interesting news goes on without you. First off, MSN interviews Daniel Craig, and I like quite a lot of what he has to say. Some of this has appeared on Bond sites already, but there are a few quotes that impress me particularly: Q: Why is it more […]

An actress I adored in such wonderful films as Grosse Point Blank (which has a YOLT homage) and Good Will Hunting, she played a comedically bad Russian country singer in GoldenEye. And today she turns 38!

Riding the wave of Bond news, EW has put together a list of its best and worst Bond girls. (But not in time to get the name of the new movie into the article.) There’s plenty to agree and disagree with in their choices. Way too much hate on Octopussy, in my opinion, and while […]

IGN has an informative interview with Michael Wilson. Read the whole thing, but the money quote is: Q: Will Quantum of Solace have anything to do with Fleming’s short story. Wilson: No, it’s completely original, it doesn’t use any part of the short story.

The London Times has an extensive interview with Mathieu Amalric, mostly about the demands of starring in The Diving Bell and Butterfly, but he also discusses Quantum of Solace. Before accepting the role, he asked the veteran actor Michael Lonsdale, who played the villainous Sir Hugo Drax in Moonraker, how it had affected his career. […]